Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Cast
Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann
Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann
Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber
Volker Spengler
Ardalion
Bernhard Wicki
Orlovius
Armin Meier
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter Kern
Müller
Adrian Hoven
Inspector Schelling
Alexander Allerson
Mayer
Hark Bohm
Doctor
Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun
Gottfried John
Perebrodov
Y Sa Lo
Elsie
Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Schmidt
Ingrid Caven
Hotel Manager
Voli Geiler
1st Landlady
Isolde Barth
2nd Landlady
Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension
Harry Baer
Innkeeper
Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck
Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
Crew
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director, Editor
Tom Stoppard
Screenplay
Vladimir Nabokov
Novel
Juliane Lorenz
Editor
Christine Fritz
Assistant Editor
Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography
Harry Baer
Assistant Director
Stefan Zürcher
Assistant Director
Ronald M. Scheich
Assistant Director
Dieter Minx
Production Supervisor
Peter Märthesheimer
Producer
Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer
Max Dietl
Costume Designer
Karin Geuer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Georg Kuhn
Wardrobe Supervisor
Peter Knöpfle
Makeup Artist
Any Nöbauer
Makeup Artist
Milan Bor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Mixer
James Willis
Sound Mixer
John Stevenson
Boom Operator
Peer Raben
Original Music Composer
Jochen Schumacher
Set Decoration, Art Direction
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
Elke Vogt
Script Supervisor
Lothar Tropp
Property Master
Klaus Meyenberg
Property Master
Ulrich Wendt
Property Master
Antonin Artaud
In Memory Of
Vincent van Gogh
In Memory Of
Unica Zürn
In Memory Of
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive
Lutz Winter
Unit Manager
Wulf Ghastaus
Unit Manager
Don French
Unit Manager
Marcel Höhn
Unit Manager
Rudolf Geiger
Unit Manager
Herbert Strabel
Art Direction
